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June 1 - Congressman David Price, "Faith
Informing Politics: Pitfalls and Promise,"
3:00 p.m., Victoria Hall, 33 West Victoria
Street, Santa.
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May 9-10 - David Chidester, Richard Hecht, Edward T. Linenthal, Robert Orsi, Jonathan Z. Smith, Sarah Taylor, and Wendy Wright, "Exploring the Contributions of Walter Capps to the Study of Religion," 9:00 a.m., 6020 Humanities and Social Sciences Building,
UCSB.
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April 26 - Congresswoman Lois Capps, Richard Hecht, Wilson Hubbell, Jim Nolan, and James Quay, "Coming Home: Walter Capps' Vietnam War Class Reunion," 1:30 p.m., UCSB Hatlen Theater.
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April 13 - Cynthia Cooper, "Extraordinary Circumstances: The Journey of a Corporate Whistleblower," 3:00 p.m., Victoria Hall, 33 West Victoria Street, Santa Barbara.
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March 16 - Elaine Pagels, Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion, Princeton University, Martin E. Marty Lecture on Religion in American
Life, "The Book of Revelation," 3:00 p.m., Victoria Hall, 33 West Victoria Street, Santa Barbara.
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March 2 - Katherine Marshall, Senior Fellow, Berkley Center on Religion, Peace and World Affairs, Georgetown University, “Ethical Challenges in International Development,” 3:00 p.m., Victoria Hall, 33 West Victoria Street, Santa Barbara.
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February 24 - Zainab Salbi, Co-founder and president, Women for Women International and Lekha Singh, photographer, “Beyond Bullets and Borders: Reconciliation and Rebuilding in the Aftermath of War,” 3:00 p.m., Victoria Hall, 33 West Victoria Street, Santa Barbara.
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February 10 - Dr. Bridget C. Cantrell and Chuck Dean, Hearts Toward Home International, “Once a Warrior: Vietnam and Iraq Vets” with panel including Wilson Hubbell, Jim Nolan, and Dr. Sharon Rapp moderated by Richard Hecht, 3:00 p.m., Victoria Hall, 33 West Victoria Street, Santa Barbara.
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January 20 - Constantine's Sword, (Oren Jacoby, 2006, 95 mins.), 3:00 p.m., UCSB Campbell Hall. Presented by Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies at UC Santa Barbara and cosponsored by the Walter H. Capps Center for the Study of Ethics, Religion, and Public Life at UC Santa Barbara.
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December 2 - Lee Hamilton, President and Director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, “Time for a Course Correction: American Foreign Policy after Iraq,” 3:00 pm, UCSB Campbell Hall. Walter H. Capps Ten-Year Commemorative Event.
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November 18 - Lynn Hunt, Eugen Weber Professor of Modern European History, UCLA, “Inventing Human Rights: A History,” 3:00 pm, Victoria Hall, 33 West Victoria Street, Santa Barbara. Wade Clark Roof Lecture Series.
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October 30 - Mario Garcia, Professor in Department of History and Chicana and Chicano Studies, “The Gospel of Cesar Chavez: My Faith in Action,” 3:30 pm, 6020 Humanities and Social Sciences Building, UCSB.
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October 21 - Gershom Gorenberg, award-winning journalist and bestselling author, “The Stuggle for the Temple Mount,” 3:00 pm, UCSB Campbell Hall, Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies at UCSB.
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October 1-December 31 - Traveling Art Exhibition by Painter Robert Shetterly, “Americans Who Tell the Truth,” Gallery Hours: M-F 11 am-6 pm, ARTS ALIVE! Community Gallery, 1N Calle Cesar Chavez, Suite 100, Santa Barbara.  Walter H. Capps Ten -Year Commemorative Event.
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September 18 - Anne Hastings, Director of Fonkoze, Haiti, “Eradicating Global Poverty: Is It Really Achievable?” 8:00 pm, Victoria Hall, 33 West Victoria Street, Santa Barbara.
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September 5 - Bill Ury, The 7th Annual Walter Capps-Bill Emerson Memorial Lecture, " Abraham's Quest: The Common Link Between Judaism, Christianity and Islam and the Journey Toward Peace," 6:00 pm, Rayburn House Office Building (B-369), Washington, DC, Co-Sponsored with the Faith and Politics Institute.
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2006 - 07 Schedule

May 18 - George Hunsinger, Hazel Thompson McCord Professor of Systematic Theology, Princeton Theological Seminary, "Torture Is the Ticking Time-Bomb: Why the Necessity Defense Fails," 4:00 pm, UCSB MultiCultural Center as part of UCSB Critical Issues in America Series on "Torture and the Future."
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May 17 - Rabbi Michael Lerner and Michael Novak, The 6th Arthur N. Rupe Great Debate, "Religion in American Politics -- Too Much or Too Little?" 8:00 pm, UCSB Campbell Hall, Co-sponsored with UCSB Arts & Lectures and Interdisciplinary Humanities Center.
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May 2 - James W. Morris, Professor of Islamic Studies, Boston College, "Spirituality in Everyday Life: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Ostad Elahi," 7:30 pm, McCune Conference Room, 6020 Humanities and Social Sciences Building, UCSB.

April 22 - Coleen Rowley, Henry A. Schimberg Lecture and Symposium on Ethics, "U.S. Intelligence, 9/11, and Iraq: A Whistleblower's Story," 3:00 pm, Victoria Hall, 33 West Victoria Street, Santa Barbara.
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March 22 - George Regas, Martin E. Marty Lecture on Religion in American Life, "A Spiritual Progressive Encounters the War Machine in America," 8:00 pm, Victoria Hall, 33 West Victoria Street, Santa Barbara.
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February 4 - Judea Pearl, Screening and Q&A: "The Journalist and The Jihadi: The Murder of Daniel Pearl" (Ahmed A. Jamal and Ramesh Sharma, 2006, 79 min.), 3:00 pm, UCSB Campbell Hall.
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January 31 - Catherine Albanese, Lecture and Book Signing: "A Republic of Mind and Spirit: A Cultural History of American Metaphysical Religion," 4:00 p.m., 6020 Humanities & Social Sciences Building.
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January 11 - Joe Matthews, Lecture: "Soft in the Middle? The Bi-Partisan Schwarzenegger and California's Future," 8:00 pm, Victoria Hall, 33 West Victoria Street, Santa Barbara.
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November 12 - Lou Cannon: "Can the Center Survive? An Analysis of the 2006
Election," 5:00 pm, Crossroads House, Firestone Vineyards, Los Olivos.
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October 19 - Kevin Phillips, Lecture and Book Signing: American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil and Borrowed Money,” 8:00 pm, UCSB Campbell Hall.
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October 5 - Jim Lichtman, Lecture: “Is America Becoming a Culture of Corruption?” 7:30 pm, Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum, 21 W Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara.
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September 17 - James Fallows, Lecture and Book Signing: “Blind Into Baghdad: America's War in Iraq,” 3:00 pm, Victoria Hall, 33 West Victoria Street, Santa Barbara.
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2005 - 06 Schedule

April 28 - Wangari Matthai, Lecture: "Sustainable Development, Democracy, and Peace," 7:00 pm, General public $15 / UCSB students $10, UCSB Campbell Hall. Co-presented with UCSB Arts & Lectures.

April 10 - Jeffrey Wigand, Capps Forum on Ethics: "What Do You Do With What You Know: The Power of One," 8:00 pm, free, Victoria Hall, 33 West Victoria Street, Santa Barbara.

March 19 - Peter Steinfels, Martin E. Marty Lectureship on Religion in American Life: "The Secular, the Religious, and the Demands of Citizenship," 3:00 pm, free, Victoria Hall, 33 West Victoria Street, Santa Barbara.
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Febuary 26 - Taylor Branch Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of Martin Luther King, Jr., Lecture: "At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68," 3:00 pm, free, Victoria Hall, 33 West Victoria Street, Santa Barbara
Cosponsored with UCSB Affiliates and Office of Community Relations
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Febuary 1 - Kwame Anthony Appiah Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University, Lecture: "Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers," 8:00 pm, free, UCSB Campbell Hall
Cosponsored with UCSB Arts & Lectures
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January 29 - Wade Clark Roof, Director, Walter H. Capps Center for the Study of Ethics, Religion, and Public Life at UCSB, Lecture: "Gen Xers and How They Are Changing American Religion," 3:00 pm, free, St. Mark's-in-the-Valley Episcopal Church, Nojoqui & Pintado Avenue, Los Olivos
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January 25 - Jon D. Levenson, Albert A. List Professor of Jewish Studies, Harvard University, Lecture: "The Conversion of Abraham to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam,", free, Victoria Hall, 33 West Victoria Street, Santa Barbara
Cosponsored with Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies at UCSB
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January 12 - Grace Davie, Director of Centre for European Studies, University of Exeter, UK, Lecture: "Pluralism, Tolerance, and Democracy in Contemporary Europe,” 5:00 pm, free, McCune Conference Room, 6020 Humanities & Social Sciences Building, UCSB
Cosponsored with the UCSB Center for Middle East Studies
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December 19 - Michael Jaffe and Gaye Theresa Johnson, Screening and Q&A: “The Rosa Parks Story” (Julie Dash, 2002, 94 min.), 7:30 pm, Metropolitan Riviera Theatre, 2044 Alameda Padre Serra, Santa Barbara

December 8 - Conference on "Religion and California" Panel Discussion, "Religion and Public Life in the Pacific Region: Fluid Identities,” Wade Clark Roof and Mark Silk, co-editors (AltaMira Press, 2005) 10:00 am, Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum, 21 W. Anapamu St., Santa Barbara
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December 7 - Conference on "Religion and California" Keynote: John C. Green The Christian Right and the 21st Century,” 7:30 pm, Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum, 21 W. Anapamu St., Santa Barbara

November 19 - Mary Becker, Screening and Q&A: “Original Child Bomb” (Carey Schonegevel, 2004, 57 min.), 7:30 pm, UCSB Campbell Hall, $5 UCSB students, $6 general admission. UCSB Arts & Lectures Ticket Office: 893-3535.
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October 17 - Mario T. Garcia & Fr. Virgil Cordano, O.F.M., Lecture and Book Signing: "Padre: The Spiritual Journey of Father Virgil Cordano," 4:00 pm, McCune Conference Room, UCSB.
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October 2 - Jeff Greenfield, Lecture: "The Best of Times, The Worst of Times – Ethics and Politics in the Mass Media Age," 3:00 pm, UCSB Campbell Hall.
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2004 - 05 Schedule

June 2 Elisabet Sahtouris, Lecture: “Living Systems and Human Social Evolution” 7-9 pm, Embarcadero Hall, 935 Embarcadero Del Norte, Isla Vista

May 26 Bob Cannard & Chiu-Nan Lai, Lecture: “The New Alchemy: Transforming Water and Soil” 7-9 pm, Embarcadero Hall, 935 Embarcadero Del Norte, Isla Vista

Cosponsored by the Capps Center for Study of Ethics, Religion & Public Life: May 19 Dr. Lois Jovanovic and Dr. William B. Hurlbut, “Who Will Decide? Contemporary Issues in Bioethics” 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm, Thornton Auditorium Wake Center, 300 North Turnpike Road, Santa Barbara.
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May 18 Masaru Emoto & William Waterway Marks, Lecture: “World Water Consciousness” 7 pm, UCSB Campbell Hall

May 16 Quang X. Pham, Lecture: “Thirty Years After Vietnam: Myths, Lessons, and Closure” 8 pm, 6020 Humanities and Social Sciences Building, UCSB.

May 12 Tom Hayden & Richard Falk, Lecture: “Ecology, Security and Humane Governance” 7-9 pm, Embarcadero Hall, 935 Embarcadero Del Norte, Isla Vista

May 10 Jonathan Rauch and Maggie Gallagher, Capps Conversation: “The Controversy over Marriage” 8 pm, Victoria Hall in Santa Barbara.
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May 5 Betsy Taylor & Reverend James Lawson , Lecture: “Creativity, Compassion and Social Change” 7-9 pm, Embarcadero Hall, 935 Embarcadero Del Norte, Isla Vista

April 28 Satish Kumar & Mary Evelyn Tucker, Lecture: “Ecological Ethics” 7-9 pm, Embarcadero Hall, 935 Embarcadero Del Norte, Isla Vista

Cosponsored by the Capps Center for Study of Ethics, Religion & Public Life: April 27 “Practicing Faith in a Pluralistic Society: Five Teens Discuss Their Faith” 7 pm, The Goleta Valley Community Center, 5679 Hollister Avenue, Old Town Goleta.

April 21 Steven Wirth, Lecture: “Contemplative Dialogue: Overcoming Divisions in Our Lives and Our World” 7:30 pm, Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum in Santa Barbara.
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April 21 Ernest Callenbach & Freda Pagani, Lecture: “Designing Sustainable Campus Communities” 7-9 pm, Embarcadero Hall, 935 Embarcadero Del Norte, Isla Vista

April 14 Martin E. Marty, Lecture: “Mapping American Spiritualities” 8 pm, Victoria Hall in Santa Barbara.
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April 14 Peter Russell & Starhawk, Lecture: “Journey Into Life: Ecology, Psychology and Education” 7-9 pm, Embarcadero Hall, 935 Embarcadero Del Norte, Isla Vista

April 7 Anuradha Mittal & Michael Tobias, Lecture: “Bread and Water: Ensuring the Essentials” 7-9 pm, Embarcadero Hall, 935 Embarcadero Del Norte, Isla Vista

Cosponsored by the Capps Center for Study of Ethics, Religion & Public Life: Spring 2005 Creating a Sustainable Future: Ecology, Ethics & Design, ESLP at UCSB Lecture Series, Thursdays, 7-9 pm, Embarcadero Hall, 935 Embarcadero Del Norte, Isla Vista

March 2 Christine Thomas, Lecture: “Christianity” 7:30 pm, Tannahill Auditorium, Alice F. Schott Center, 310 West Padre Street, Santa Barbara.

February 22Juan E. Campo, Lecture: “Islam” 7:30 pm, Tannahill Auditorium, Alice F. Schott Center, 310 West Padre Street, Santa Barbara.

Cosponsored by the Capps Center for Study of Ethics, Religion & Public Life: February 16 Robert J. Lifton, MD, Lecture: “America and the Human Future - Surviving Vietnam, 9/11 and Iraq” 8 pm, UCSB Corwin Pavilion.

February 15David White, Lecture: “Hinduism” 7:30 pm, Tannahill Auditorium, Alice F. Schott Center, 310 West Padre Street, Santa Barbara.

Cosponsored by the Capps Center for Study of Ethics, Religion & Public Life: February 13Robert McChesney, Lecture: “Media and Politics in the United States Today” 3 pm, UCSB Corwin Pavilion.

February 8Richard Hecht, Lecture: “Judaism” 7:30 pm, Tannahill Auditorium, Alice F. Schott Center, 310 West Padre Street, Santa Barbara.

February 1 Jose Cabezon, Lecture: “Tibetan Buddhism” 7:30 pm, Tannahill Auditorium, Alice F. Schott Center, 310 West Padre Street, Santa Barbara.

January 24Diana L. Eck, Lecture: “Beyond Tolerance: Ethics and Engagement in a Multireligious America” 7:30 pm, Marjorie Luke Theatre, 721 East Cota, Santa Barbara.

January 13 Scott Stossel, Lecture: “Making a Better America: The Politics of the 1960s and the Legacy of Sargent Shriver” 8 pm, UCSB Corwin Pavilion.

December 12 Harvey Cox , Lecture: “When Jesus Came to Harvard: Making Moral Choices Today” 3 pm, Victoria Hall in Santa Barbara.
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December 2 Colleen McDannell, Lecture and Exhibition: “Picturing Faith: Photography and the Great Depression” 8 pm, Karpeles Library Museum in Santa Barbara.
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October 19Barry Lynn, Lecture: “God in Government: Unholy Matrimony?” 8 pm, Victoria Hall in Santa Barbara.
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October 7Seymour Hersh, Lecture: “Investigating the War on Terrorism: Abu Ghraib and the Underside of the Conflict in Iraq,” 8:00 pm, UCSB Campbell Hall, $10 UCSB students, $12 general admission. UCSB Arts & Lectures Ticket Office: 893-3535.
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September 23Jean Bethke Elshtain,
Lecture: "Contemporary American Politics: The Ethical Divide" 8:00 pm, Victoria Hall in Santa Barbara.
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September 8 Gillian Martin Sorensen, Lecture: "The U.S. and the U.N.: Can this Marriage Be Saved?” 8:00 pm, Victoria Hall in Santa Barbara.
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2003 - 04

May 19Phillip Hammond & David Machacek, Lecture: "Religion
on Trial: How Supreme Court Trends Threaten Freedom of Conscience
in America,” 4:00 pm, McCune Conference Room, UCSB.
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May 9Vandana Shiva, Lecture: "Planting Seeds for Change:
Women’s Struggle against Corporate Control of Biodiversity,"
3:00 pm, UCSB Campbell Hall.
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April 27Edward T. Linenthal, Lecture: "Terrorism and Its Aftermath:
Oklahoma City and September 11,” 7:30 pm, Victoria Hall, Santa Barbara.
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March 27Jim Wallis, Lecture: "Prophetic Politics in An Election Year,"
8:00 pm, Victoria Hall, Santa Barbara.
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March 7 - 25th - Anniversary Celebration of Walter Capps’ course on "Religion and the Impact of Vietnam," 3:00 pm, UCSB Campbell Hall.
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February 19Stewart M. Hoover, Lecture: "Religion in the Media Age," 8:00 pm, Victoria Hall, Santa Barbara.
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January 21 - Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, Lecture, “A Human Being Died That Night: A South African Story of Forgiveness” 8:00 pm, Victoria Hall in Santa Barbara.
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January 13 - Lou Cannon, Lecture, “The Rise of the Celebrities: Republican Politics from Reagan to Schwarzenegger,” 8:00 pm, Victoria Hall, Santa Barbara.
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December 11 - Alan Wolfe, Lecture, “The Transformation of American Religion: How We Actually Live Our Faith,” 8:00 pm, Victoria Hall, Santa Barbara.
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November 17 - Rubén Martínez, Lecture: "Spirits in the Material World," 12 Noon, UCSB MultiCultural Center.
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October 30 - E. J. Dionne Jr., Lecture: "One Electorate Under God? Religion and American Politics," 7:30 pm, Victoria Hall in Santa Barbara.
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October 8 - George Lakoff, Lecture: "Reframing the American Future: The Progressive Vision Is The American Vision," 5 pm, McCune Conference Room, UCSB.
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October 1 - Albert Raboteau, Lecture: "Day, King, Merton and Thurmond: Suffering and Social Justice," 5 pm, UCSB Hatlen Theatre.
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September 10 - Thich Nhat Hanh as the Capps-Emerson Memorial Lecturer, 5:30 pm, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Co-Sponsored with the Faith and Politics Institute.
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August 27-31 - Invitational Conference at La Casa de Maria. Theme: "The Sacred Wheel of Water."
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2002 -- 03 Schedule

May 16 - Sister Helen Prejean, Lecture: "Dead Man Walking: The Journey Continues," 8:00 pm, UCSB Campbell Hall.

May 8 - Gustav Niebuhr, Lecture: "Religious Pluralism: America's Continuing Challenge," 4:00 am, UCSB Multi-cultural Center.

October 6 - Gary Wills, Lecture: "Citizen Believers," 3:00 pm, Victoria Hall.
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